Already a Bodybuilding Legend, Arnold Schwarzenegger Once Put His Expert Swimming Skills to a Noble Use

Everybody knows about the success story of Arnold Schwarzenegger. The young boy who came from Thal, Austria, to the US and made it his home, excelling in bodybuilding, acting, and politics. A multi-talented man whose exploits are legendary. However, even the lesser-known details about Arnold Schwarzenegger are epic and larger than life. The athlete who never shies away from talking about his love of bodybuilding also keeps a keen interest in chess, skiing, and also swimming. The latter of the ones once came in very handy in saving a person’s life.

Schwarzenegger had turned to politics to help people’s lives. That is exactly what he did in August 2004 when he was the governor of California. The then California governor was in Maui, Hawaii at the time when, out of nowhere, he heard cries for help. Without hesitating, in quintessential Schwarzenegger style, he jumped into the waters to help the distressed man.

Land or water, Arnold Schwarzenegger is always there to help people

“This is so very Arnold. He is the action governor, right?” said Sherry Bebtich Jeffe to SFGATE news. She was a political analyst at the University of Southern California. At the time of the incident, no one was there to report it live, and neither did the governor make any splash about it for headlines. However, it didn’t take long for it to catch on.

A man who remained nameless was swimming in the waters of Maui, Hawaii, and suddenly started feeling a loss of control. He felt that the water was cramping up and he started panicking. Luckily for him, Arnold Schwarzenegger was there. Schwarzenegger went into the water and started calming the man down.

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The first thing was to make sure that the person thought everything was ok. Otherwise, nervous behavior in water increases the danger of drowning. Schwarzenegger then pulled him and his boogie back onto the shore.

Schwarzenegger’s time in politics gave him immense joy

Even in his latest Netflix docuseries ‘Arnold’, Schwarzenegger recalled that he joined politics only to help people, to give back what he had earned over the years. It wasn’t only about money, but helping people in every which way he could. Saving a swimmer’s life from drowning is also part of it. Schwarzenegger was staying at the Four Seasons Hotel at the time, and so was Pat O’Brien of Access Hollywood. The incident caught wind in no time, and from one ear to another, it spread like wildfire.

Soon, it added another feather to the cap of the then-newly made California governor. Whether it definitively helped him in his political career is hard to tell. But it surely redefined his image.

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